Ai Weiwei Quotes
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.
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I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
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The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
